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Siyanda Nohashe cleans municipal wheelie bins along Aloe Street in Dunoon. He supports himself and pays one permanent and one casual worker. Photo: Peter Luhanga<\/p>\n

For ten years Siyanda Nohashe used to sell South African design suits. But in 2018, at the age of 30, he quit his job and swapped the suits he wore for a pair of blue overalls. Nohashe started a business cleaning municipal wheelie bins.<\/p>\n

He says he wanted to earn more and work for himself. \u201cI resigned. I said to my boss I want to start my own business,\u201d says Nohashe.<\/p>\n

Initially he thought of opening a car wash, but \u201ceveryone was doing it\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to do something unique,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

With no capital and only a 20-litre bucket and a broom, he started cleaning municipal wheelie bins after they\u2019d been emptied on refuse collection day for people living in Dunoon.<\/p>\n

Charging just R5 a bin when he started, he soon had 30 clients.<\/p>\n

But he there was social stigma to overcome. He said people had seen him in suits, and now he was wearing dirty overalls and they were quick to judge him. Some people thought he was a drug addict. It \u201ckilled me emotionally\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

He now has hundreds of clients and is doing well. He has moved from a backyard shack to an apartment with indoor plumbing and hot water. He has registered his business and he has one permanent and one casual employee.<\/p>\n

He has recently introduced recycling for his clients. He buys clear refuse bags and hands them out so that people can separate recyclables from the trash that goes to landfills. He sells the recyclables to three companies in Montague Gardns.<\/p>\n

When wheelie bins are damaged, Nohashe helps his clients apply to the City of Cape Town to get new ones free of charge.<\/p>\n

Mawawa Dyobani, who has been a client for the last three years, says Nohashe provides a service he doesn\u2019t have time to do himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe cleans them with chemicals and afterwards they smell nice,\u201d says Dyobani.<\/p>\n

Nohashe\u2019s next goal is to buy a bakkie and a high pressure cleaning unit so that he can expand his operation to other areas.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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